Online Help Forums Survey

[Icarus]

I was browsing the HP support forums and ran across a posting where a couple of girls in collage in the Netherlands are doing a survey of online help forums. I emailed them asking if they would like me to post it here and they were thrilled by the offer, I like helping people...it's my nature :)

Here's their posting and the survay takes about 15-20 minutes, so help them out for the holidays :D
Dear forums members,

We are two doctoral researchers at Maastricht University (Netherlands) looking into the effectiveness of online support forums and what you think of them. Toward that end, we have prepared an academic online survey that takes just 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey is available at:


http://www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/marketing/research/forumlinux


We would like to invite you to share your opinion with us. In order to show our appreciation for your effort, you will be notified of the findings and we will raffle 100 amazon.com vouchers. Thank you very much for your strongly needed input!

Vera and Caroline

[hard candy]

where a couple of girls in collage in the Netherlands are doing a survey of online help forums. I emailed them asking if they would like me to post it here and they were thrilled by the offer, I like helping people...it's my nature
I'll help them.
Any chance of volunteering to fly over to Holland and help collate the data? :D

[Parcival]

Eeesh, what a mod. Talking to babes from the Netherlands without asking for pictures to be posted, too. :D

<EDIT> kay, maybe I should checks the links first next time :cool: </EDIT>

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Parcival
Eeesh, what a mod. Talking to babes from the Netherlands without asking for pictures to be posted, too. :D

<EDIT> kay, maybe I should checks the links first next time :cool: </EDIT> Heh, honestly I didn't even check the link before I emailed them...so I didn't see their pictures until afterwords...besides, I'm married :p

Its a good survey, the results will be interesting to see
Considering this was originally made for the HP forums and they made changes for our forums is a very nice gesture from them!

[Parcival]

I know you're married, but there's no reason to walk through the world with closed eyes. :D

Yes, I'm very interested in the results of the research, too (I'm studying mediapsychology, also teaching a little) and we have our own research projects at the institute. One year ago three students of mine did a research on the level of acceptance newbies receive when they do their initial post. :)

However, any kind of survey that involves self-ratings done by its participants lack one thing: accuracy and potential misinterpretations.

Take for example the question wether its easy or not to find information in the forums. A newbie using the JL search may answer yes (as it doesn't have that many options), but I e.g. said "no" because I wish I could use more Google syntax in the forum search. :) Oh well, let's see what the results say. :)

[Icarus]

Of course we're a little biased, we've worked hard to make a good forum and continue to do so!

The search function does need a little work, but nothing on the scale of Google! :)

[ozdream]

No worries here mate, Gave it a go..

Interesting to see what come of this..

[Icarus]

I just heard from them, only 15 people from here responded

They wanted to "emphasize the 100 Amazon vouchers that we are raffling. One in four people will win such a voucher (value: 20EUR or $ equivalent)"

or in otherwords, we won't be able to see the results if there is nothing to show :D

[mengle]

Let's show some support and help these women out! If they don't get enough respondants their statistcal results will be garbage (stupid statistical power). Hey, it only took me 10 minutes or so and was painless. If you're on these forums you probably have time to kill anyways.

[WayStar]

**BUMP**


I just found this thread and took the survey myself. hopefully some others will do the same.

-Waylena, always glad to see more women who are into Linux.

[mrBen]

I've just done it too - maybe you should change the title to something more enticing ;o)

[Icarus]

Originally posted by mrBen
I've just done it too - maybe you should change the title to something more enticing ;o) Hot chicks need YOUR help!!

I've been thinking of making this thread a sticky, maybe that would work better?

[keyshawn]

even if its in sticky, it's still fifth or so on the list. :(

I filled out the survey, though - hope it helped !!!!!

[im putting the link in my sig]

[Icarus]

You might want to try using the URL tags in your sig to make it easier to use ;)

[leonpmu]

Also I think it is a good way for the mods to see what is good, bad or ugly about JL.

Come on guys, try and get everyone in your buddy list to do the survey, also it will be interesting to see how many Linux people there are out there!!!

[Ops]

I took the quiz, its rather long, maybe there are some questions they can edit out.

[dalek]

Some seem to be the same with slightly different wording, not much difference in the meaning though.

I did make a nice mention of mdwatts at the end. What would we do without him? :( :(

Later

:D :D :D :D :D

[keyshawn]

Any news with the survey ?!?!?!

[dalek]

I sent them a e-mail for info. Will post when they respond.

Later

:D :D :D :D

[dalek]

I got a e-mail about the questionaire we filled out. This is what I got.

Hi Dalek,

we have finished the data collection and will soon start with the data analysis. Once, we have the interesting results, we will provide you with all the details. Thanks for asking and many greetings from Maastricht,
Vera

I guess they will let us know when they are public.

Later

:D :D :D :D

[Ludootje]

I hoped they'd be done by now and have the results, but apparently they're still not done with the data analysis :(

Maybe someone from JL can help them with that... anyone studied marketing? ;)

From: V dot Blazevic at MW dot unimaas dot nl
To: ludootje at linux dot be
Subject: RE: linux forum questionnaire
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:48:51 +0200

Hi Ludo,

We are working on the data analysis at the moment, but I'm sure that some
time soon, we can provide you with some interesting results. Many greetings
and thanks for your interest in our study,
Vera

[Ludootje]

w00t got the results!
See http://rootshell.be/~ludooke/results_for_Linux.ppt.bz2 (148Kb)
yeah it's a powerpoint presentation :( seems to work ok in OpenOffice though

[keyshawn]

Originally posted by Ludootje
w00t got the results!
See http://rootshell.be/~ludooke/results_for_Linux.ppt.bz2 (148Kb)
yeah it's a powerpoint presentation :( seems to work ok in OpenOffice though

having trouble getting the file.......link won't work for me :(

[dalek]

Want me to e-mail it to you? I have it somewhere.

PM if you do.

Later

:D :D :D :D

[WayStar]

Nice looking presentation. I'm glad we came across well, as this is a very good community.

-Waylena

[dalek]

keyshawn, it's about to come your way. May take a while to upload though.

It is a M$ PowerPoint Presentation. How funny they send Linux users that thing. Thank God for Open Office.

:confused: :rolleyes: :D :D :D :D

[leyb]

If the survey is complete and the results were published, why is it still receiving more feedback?
I just filled it out before finishing to read this thead.:mad:

[dalek]

Originally posted by leyb
If the survey is complete and the results were published, why is it still receiving more feedback?
I just filled it out before finishing to read this thead.:mad:

Getting a jump on the next one maybe? :confused: :confused:

Now you can go see the results at least. Talk about fast service.

:D :D :D :D

[RodNICE]

Hopefully my answers will go to improving this site in regards to the semi-hostility.